Tag: A.I.

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Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town, The Harmony Grits (1959) When The Drifters were fired by their manager after an incident at the Apollo Theater, they were immediately replaced by members of The 5 Crowns. Clyde McPhatter had begun a solo career, so the others, Gerhard and Andrew Thrasher with Bill Pinkney and Little David Baughan(?) formed The Harmony Grits, as their former manager owned rights to The Drifters name.  They recorded two songs before renaming themselves The Original Drifters. [More on the story here.]

Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town was first recorded by Harry Reser and His Orchestra, with vocal by Tom Stacks (1934).

Abby?

Wanted.

The Warning.

Hours of Fun!

A gift for Farley.

Happy campers.

Goldblum loses it.

the babe with legs.

Definitely a dad move.

Pa-RUMpa-pum-pum.

Ghostbusters in reverse.

Feltic Christmas decorations.

Tardigrade egg [via Bunkerville].

Raised in captivity, born to be free.

The Santa Sessions [via Mme. Jujujive}.

Brunch in a Jar Sippin’ Cream [h/t Gord S.].

Beware die Schlupfkappe [via Memo Of The Air].

Dan Koft calls Boogie Woogie Santa Claus square dance.

[Top image via Deep Dream Generator and the text prompt “Tardigrade with Christmas lights”.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The Friday .Gif Post No. 830 – Fish Licker, The Kitten Shuffler & The Oglers

[1st found here, kitten shuffling clipped from here. 3rd .gif created/modified from AI meme morph found here.]

The First A.I. Thanksgiving

According to Deep Dream Generator, no European colonists were present at The First Thanksgiving  but the locals had plenty of pumpkins and raw quail to eat.

Spiny Stuff

Bunkessa had an x-ray recently. I messed with it.

Colorized with Palette, sharpened with an old PhotoSuite 4.0 program, then ran it through Deep Dream Generator.

Brown Acid

So I was looking for an illustration to go with a story about the Little League World Series for posting on another website, and started with Charlie Brown. The pic was kind of boring by itself, and I wondered what the AI Deep Dreams Generator might come up with. Lower right is the cumulative result. Trip city.

Saturday Matinee – A.I. – The Carnival of the Ages, LA Priest, The Growlers & Sturgill Simpson’s Sunday Valley

“Where past and future collide in a retro-futuristic spectacle.”
[via Nag On The Lake]

LA Priest (aka Sam Dust, aka Sam Eastgate) found some electrical outlets in the Mexican jungle to play Carribean techno space lounge music.

The Growlers had some fun with a dark subject.

Enough of that oddness. Time for some jaw-dropping high speed electric bluegrass hollerin’ cowpunk, and Sunday Valley fits the bill. The band is defunct, but Sturgill Simpson is still kicking it… somewhere.

Well looky here. It’s the weekend again, so have a great one and we’ll see you back here tomorrow.

 

Saturday Matinee – A.I. Family Guy Pizza, Hot Club de Piracicaba, Jimmie Vaughan, and Robert Randolph & The Family Band

When you ask A.I. to create a Family Guy pizza commercial you get this.

Hot Club de Piracicaba performs Paganini in Django style.

Guitar great Jimmie Vaughan is still pickin’ the blues at 72.
At 04:12 he says it’s an Eddie Taylor song, but a 1952 Meteor Records 78rpm issue credits Elmore James & James Taub as the writers.

Robert Randolph and The Family Band
“In his adolescent years before being discovered by the secular community, [Randolph] was almost completely unaware of non-religious music. He went on exclaim in an interview that ‘I grew up and saw a lot of older guys playing lap steels and pedal-steel guitars in my church. I had never heard of the Allman Brothers, or even Buddy Guy or Muddy Waters.’ “ [Wiki}

And I had never heard the term sacred steel before today. Have a great weekend, see you back here tomorrow. Bring your laundry.

A.I.-Generated Translucent Robot Animals

[Found here.]

A.I. Creates Universal Sign Language IHONIALLLILAL


“Someone asked AI to make a sign language manual, in case you’re worried that we’ll all be out of a job soon.”

[Top image and caption found here, story here.]

Saturday Matinee – Glenn Marshall / Fractal Forest, The Ramones, The Brothers Comatose & Sue Foley

https://youtu.be/-UmBYPy0FFM

AI meets Mandelbrot, and the results are beautiful, serene – and distubing. Computer artistry by Glenn Marshall, based upon a 3D Appolonian fractal animation by Inigo Quilez.

Here’s a palette cleanser. The Ramones.

The Brothers Comatose crank out denim trenchcoat bluegrass.

Think premium leaded Fabulous Thunderbirds with SRV. Sue Foley is an amazing blues rocker out of Austin, Texas.

Got a lot going on these days, and even more to worry about if I really wanted to bother, so maybe I’ll just have fun instead. See you tomorrow.